Lightest?

For sure these are not the world's lightest mountainbikes, nor did we ever claim they were. We claimed they were under 6.8kg (and clearly stated without pedals), which you can easily verify if you swig by our booth :-). And we said that the FRAME is the lightest mountainbike frame that EFBe has ever tested that passed their highest level test and that they didn't think it would when we sent it to them, which you can find on their site (the fact that it passed and is the lightest anyway, not the bit that they were surprised).

As your quote shows, it's about the frame, not the bike. Maybe that's not 100% clear but at least 90%. I don't control what people write, but I do control what we give people so they can write.

And in our information (which is actually also part of the article as they include a photo of our info sheet) it clearly states we talk about the frame. We don't even claim to be the lightest frame, merely the lightest production frame because of course anybody can make anything for themselves at any weight and we may not even know about it.

Gv

Originally Posted by phlegm

You should get the article corrected in that case...

Article quote:
"Frame weight of the O-1.0 is under 900g for a size large, added Vroomen, who figures these are the 'lightest 29er hardtails in the world'."

Thanks Gerard for chiming in to clarify the article. Did not intend this to be negative towards your achievement. Rather, was curious what the folks in this forum may be up to to challenge the claim "World's Lightest" 29r hardtail. This seems to be posed as a question for the article, so figured there are people in the world who might be close, or surpass the cumulative weight of that build shown. However, as facelessfools pointed out, it appears you could get your frame build even lower with other part swaps.

Have to admit that the article did come off implying your demo bike was the world's lightest 29r, but it's good to get perspective from the source on this.